That's What Keeps Her Getting By

Stack of bills on her kitchen table

Out go the lights and off goes the cable

If she don't pay 'em by the 15th

And it don't look like she's gonna be able

Two mouths to feed, two jobs barely get it done

A lot on her plate for a single mom of thirty-one

From the outside looking in, you'd think her world would crumble

She keeps finding that light at the end of the tunnel

But somehow she keeps gettin' by

The only soft shoulder she knows

Is on some old broken road she's going down, she's going down

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel

But she's not, no matter what

She's gonna give her kids better a life than what she's got

And that's what keeps her gettin' by

Friday at noon, it's parent teacher day

It's Johnson elementary or half a shift's pay

She wouldn't miss it for the world

She looks around at all the daddy's in the room

Wishing her kids had one of them too

This ain't how she planned it, her life's going ten different ways

It's off to little league and then to ballet

But somehow she keeps gettin' by

The only soft shoulder she knows

Is on some old broken road she's going down, she's going down

And sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel

But she's not, no matter what

She's gonna give her kids better a life than what she's got

And that's what keeps her gettin' by

In every dark cloud, oh she, keeps finding that silver lining

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel

But she's not, no matter what

She's gonna give her kids a better life than what she's got

And that's what keeps her gettin' by

Yeah, that's what keeps her gettin' by